Eastern Sun, 9 October 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1143 Thursday, 9 October 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 490 1 SINGAPORE will make a financial profit of about $3O to $35 million if the German Mark is "upwardly revalued/' the Finance Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, revealed yesterday. He was speaking to newsmen at the airport yesterday on his return from the annual meeting of
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  • 60 1 HONG KONG. Wed. (AFP) Vletcong forces, in Phu Yen province. Central Vietnam. have ordered the total mobilisation of both male and female youth, a National Liberation Front radio broadcast said today. The broadcast urged youth In the province to overcome all difficulties and suffering to fulfil "their
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  • 148 1 NEW DELHI. Wed |Reuter) —Space research and the moon conquest has helped develop a device which will eventually enable the blind to see, a Canadian delegate told a world conference on blindness here today. Mr. Arthur N. Magill, himself blind, told the fourth assembly of
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  • 57 1 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan. Wed. (Reuter) Former Army Brigadier Abdul Rahman Khan was sworn in today as interim president of Azad (Free) Kashmir in succession to Abdul Hamid Khan, who resigned yesterday The ceremony at Muzaffarabad, capital of the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan and 90 miles northeast of here
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  • 113 1 LONDON. Wed. (AFP) The Deutsche Mark remained virtually unchanged in the foreign exchange market here today as speculation continued in anticipation of a revaluation of the Dutch guilder, in spite of official denials in The Hague earlier this week. The Dutch central hank lowered its intervention level from yesterday's
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  • 139 1 TUNIS, Wed. (AFP) Mokhtar Latiri, Tunisia's Public Works Director, today appealed for international aid as flood damage reached what he called ''catastrophic proportions. More than 420 people have died In floods which have swept through 10 of the country's 13 departments over recent days.
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  • 89 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Wed. (Reuter) Hijackers took over a Caravelle Jet airliner on a Brazilian Internal flight today and the plane landed in Georgetown. Guyana, the airline Cruzeiro Do Sul announced. The hijackers apparently wanted to fly to Cuba, the airline said. Shortage of fuel was
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  • 70 1 SAIGON, Wed. tßeute r > SouLh Vietnam's Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem ha t called On the South Vietnamese t<> be o n the alert for a new wav ol Vietcong attacks. General Khiem said captured documents and other information that the Communists were planning a new
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  • 91 1 BRISBANE, Wed. (Reuter) Australian men who wear moustaches are nearly all obsessional, psychopathic or impotent, according to a Brisbane psychiatrist. Dr. Neville Parker made his claim in a paper he delivered today to the Sixth Annual Congress of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Dr. Parker
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  • 490 1 The wife of the labourer. Low Kim Luan, who lost both his legs in an industrial accident recently, is hoping the Government will allow her husband to become a Singapore citiscn. Madam Tan Kah Hoon. with all the looks of stress and anxiety
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  • 104 1 AMMAN. Jordan Wed.(UFI) —Arab guerrillas claimed they killed or injured "several" Israeli soldiers in an attack vesterday against a military position in Al-Roussei a A> Hamra. south of Mount Hermon in northern Israel. A spokesman for the Palestinian Armed Struggle Command (PASO said a unit of
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  • 85 1 ROME Wed. (AFP) King Constantine of Greece and Queen Anne-Mane today presented their eight-day-old son Nicolas to the world press here but the baby prince was quite unimpressed and slept throughout the 30minute photo session. Prince Nicolas, the royal couple's third child, wore a long white dress revealing
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  • 321 1 THE Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Foenander, was told yesterday how those persons called to form an identification parade had to wear bandages over their heads because the accused charged with the murder of a motor-cyclist had during interrogation suddenly grabbed hold
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  • 39 1 PARIS, Wed. (Reuter) Franc* today raised its bank rate to a record level of eight per cent, effective immediately, in the latest move to make devaluation a success and put the economy on a firmer basis.
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  • 118 1 HONG KONG, Wed. (AFP) China has set up a modern submarine base in Taishan county facing the South China Sea, the Keung Sheung Evening News reported today. The right-wing paper, quoting "reliable sources", said the base, equipped with modern radar networks and other facilities, was one
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 133 2 ROYAL Thai Embassies around the world are now in tho process of collecting "a tiny amount of earth" (about one cubic inch) each from capital cities of countries everywhere. The earth will be blessed according to the Buddhist rites to propagate peace for the human race and
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  • 109 2 SAN DIEGO. California, Wed. (Reuter) A rescue submarine equipped with manipulator arms and a severing tool today freed another submarine with four men aboard trapped by a steel cable on the sea bed off Southern California. The stricken submarine Deep Quest, a research vessel which crawls crab-like
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  • 160 2 THE University of Singapore Students' Union yesterday called upon the Singapore end Malaysian Governments to exercise "greater care and caution in implementing their work-permits policies." A statement Issued by th# union's general secretary, Mr. Mathew Verghese, yesterday said that the organisation was deeply concerned over
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  • 106 2 PARIS. Wed. (Reuter) The French government today approved the 1970 budget, including a surplus of 950 million francs (about £7l million). Government spokesman Leo Hamon told reporters after a cabinet meeting that receipts for the year would be 178.738 million francs (about £13,405 million) as against
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  • 696 2 MAY 13: ONE-NINE-SIX DEATHS CLAIM KUALA LUMPUR, Wad. Th« long qwoited report en »h« Moy 13 tragedy, issued by the National Operations Council today, has pegged the death toll at 196. According to figures in the report, 439 people were injured, of which 180 were snot while others received their
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  • Article, Illustration
    145 2 Tu-o local employees of BO AC in Singapore and Malaysia will leave for a twoyear training attachment to the airlines offices in Britain. They are —Mr Sunnv Voo from Singapore and Mr Anffln bin Haji Omar from Malaysia. Mr. Voo. 31, a senior sales representative for BO
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  • 102 2 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) Thai Prun« Mmiste r Field Marshal Thanom Kttikachorn said today that a Moalem essionist movement in aouthern Thailand wai being instigated by extremist opposition in Malaysia. He did not elaborate, but added there were no problems in relat;on s between the Thai nd Malaysian governments.
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  • 151 2 The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board together with the Adult Education Board will sponsor the sixth tourist guide training course next month. The course which will last for four months will consist of 28 intensive lectures and ten tutorials. Applications are open to all Singapore citizens who are
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  • 62 2 TOKYO. Wed (AFP)—The head of the bronze bust of Dr. Gustav Emile Boissonade, French founde r of Hosei University in Tokyo, was found lopped off when police raided the campus today. A "preventive raid" was conducted on the university with 450 piainclothesmer. and uniformed riot policemen, removing barricades
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  • 145 2 A local shipyard in Tanjong Rhu, Vosptr Thorncroft Uniteers Private Ltd., has launched the second 150 ft. twin-screw workboat for use in oil explorations in Borneo offshore waters. The vessel, built for Shell Group of Companies. is similar to the one launched last year. The general
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  • 170 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The United States would continue to give its support to Asian solutions aimed at securing peace In *he region, the new U.S. ambassador to Malaysia. Mr. Jack W. Lydman. pledged today. He made this pledge when he presented his credentials to the
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  • 245 2 Mr. Tom K. T. Choo, Sales Manager of General Milk Company (8> Pte Ltd presented a $5O to Miss Georglana Low, winner of the first prize of the Blue Cross Contest A. yesterday. Blue Cross Contest 1* a simple contest planned for family fun participation,
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  • 1302 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The National Operations Council is to formulate a solution to work out a positive plan whereby the aspirations of the people can best be achieved with racial harmony and good- Will. A 96-page report on the May 13 tragedy released by the NOC
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  • 98 2 MONTREAL, Wed. (UPI) The National government yesterday ordered the armed forces into Montreal where almost the entire police force and most of the city"* firemen were on strike. And in only a few hours the provincial legislature passed a" emergency bill ordering the men back to work
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  • 371 4 BRIGHTON, England, Wed. (Reutcr) Conservative leader Edward Heath apparently plans an aggressive show of leadership as Britain's opposition party today opens its annual autumn conference here. In i conference-eve speech lest night to perty managers, he warned thet the Labour Government was Jikely to call
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  • 279 4 UNITED NATIONS, New York. Wed. (Reuter) Libya's socialist' revolutionary government, which took office in a coup last month, yesterday unveiled significant foreign policy changes that included strong support for China's admission to the U.N. and rare public criticism of the U.S. role in
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  • 224 4 LONDON. Wed (UPI) The London Time* yesterday Joined In the controversy surrounding the publication of former society playglrl Christine Keeler's memoirs. In an editorial appearing in early edition of yesterday's Times, the newspaper criticised the mass circulated News of the World tabloid for its
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  • 256 4 LTCItED NATIONS. Wed. (UPI) The big four powers wtf# taking their time yesterday to rwum« active work on a Middle East peace settlement Western diplomats said it might take "months" before enough is ©rodured to hand to U-N. peace envoy Gunnar Jarring to
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  • 175 4 LONDON* Wed. (UPI) A Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday Britain still reserves the right to sell arms anywhere In the Middle East and has not begun an arms embargo of the area He was refuting a report circulated from Tripoli by the Middle
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  • 34 4 VATICAN CITY. Wed (UPI> —Celibacy is a strict rul* for Roman Catholics of the Western rite, and Pope Paul VI has said firmly he wants to uphold it. But there are exceptions
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  • 41 4 MEMBERS of Japanese Ground Self- Defence Force quelling fellow members playing the part of rioters (foreground) in a drill in maintaining "public peace and order" at the East Fuji Military Exercise Grounds in the skirts of Mt. Fuji recently. UPI Photo.
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  • 135 4 RABAT. Morocco Wed. (UPI) Ahmed Laraki. Moroccan Foreign Minister since 1987. wa« named Pnme Minister on Monday night by King Hassan 11. Laraki. a 38-year-old doctor, who studied in Paris, succeeded Mohamed Benhima who is also a qualified doctor The reshuffle was the 12th carried
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  • 72 4 EAST BERLIN. Wed (Reuter) About 2.000 East German youths clashed with police here last night as the Communist state celebrated its 20th anniversary According to o® l of the youths, they had assembled near the Berlin Wall to hear a show by the British Rolling Stones
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  • 472 4 PARIS, Wed. (UPI) Prince Karim Aga Khan, one of the world's richest and most eligible bachelors, is to marry a British divorcee, his houshold announced yesterday A spokesman for the 32-year-old Aga Khan, spiritual leader of some 20 million Moslems of the Ismailia sect
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  • 93 4 CAPE TOWN Wed <Reuter> The captain of a Nationalist Chinese trawler was acquitted yesterday of attempted murder and assault involving two Japanese seamen during a bloody brawl at a Cape Town night club The skipper. Suen Chao. was found not guilty last Friday on the
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  • 243 4 PARIS. Wed. (Router) The Aga Khan, whose engagement to Lady Sarah Frances Crlchton Stuart was announced yesterday, is one of the world's richest and most eligible bachelors. Son of the late Prince Aly Khan and a British aristocrat mother. th e Harvardeducated pnnce succeeded
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  • 59 4 BONN. Wed. (UPI) Sofia! Democrat Willy Brandt's forthcoming coalition government probably will reduce baste military service from the present 18 months to 15 or even 12 month*, political sources said yesterday. Both Brandt and his Free Democratic partners committed themselves to the reduction during the
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  • 197 4 BarnardZoellner Marriage Confirmed JOHANNESBURG, We 4. (Reuter) —Professor Chris Barnard's attractive 19-year-old fiancee. Mias Barbara Zoellner. said last night that she and the 44-vear-old heart transplant surgeon would probably marry n ext year Professor Barnard proposed to her at her home here about a month ago after asking her parents
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  • 176 4 GAZA Wed (Reuter; An Israeli military court yesterday jailed an Egyptian nurse for not having reported treating a wounded Arab guerilla, and maintaining contact with Gaza Stru subversives. The nurse. Miss Fatma El Nagoull. 24. was given concurrent sentences of three and two months
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  • 48 4 CAIRO. Wed (Reuter> The National Congress of the Arab Socialist Union —Egypt s only political organisation will hold its fourth round ~>f sessions next December, the newspaper A 1 Ahram said here today The Congress usually discusses various asoect of domestic and externa; affairs
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • 226 5 BOSTON, Wed, (Reuter) Sen. Edward Kennedy's Jawyers will appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court here today for a change in the rules governing an inquest into Mary Jo Kopechne's death. They claim that the rules, under which attorneys cannot cross-examine witnesses or object to questions,
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  • 47 5 MEXICO cm*, wed CReuter) Police chiefs from 103 nations are expected to attend next Monday's Interpol Congress here The congress will discuss the growing world menaces of drugs and air piracy the protection of tourists abroad, smuggling detention of jus-' pects and the use of arms.
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  • 334 5 WASHINGTON, Wed (UPI) Failure by Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to negotiate the return of Okinawa to Japan when he visits Washington in November could lead to termination of the U.S. Japan Alliance. Senate Republicans warned yesterday. The warning was contained In a Senate Republican Policy Committee
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  • 154 5 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (Reuter> Maurice Stans. the United States Secretarv of Commerce today described Japan as "the worst offender Of all" in placing trade restrictions on United States exports. Stans who recently went to Japan to try to persuade the Japaese to lower tariff barriers, said
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  • 175 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed (UPI) A "morning after" contraceptive given to hundreds of college girls has been 100 per cent effective when taken soon enough after Intercourse, a Yale University phvsiclan reported yesterday. Dr John McLean Morris said heavy doses of commonly used estrogens have
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  • 192 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Treasury Secretary David M, Kennedy conceded yesterday that the administrations anti-inflation fight is going to put more Americans out of work. But he refused to say just how much more joblessness the administration would tolerate. "There's no question as you elow the economy
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  • 151 5 MONTREAL Wed (UPI)— Union leaders late yesterday night ordered striking police and ftremen back to work. Looter« swept through the downtown area during the strike, and at least three persons were reporter killed Some police immediately began leaving the sports arena where they had been gathered
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  • 75 5 MADRID Wed (UPI) Hundreds «f thousands of Spaniards roaring their adulation and waving tiny flags yesterdav gave Americas Apollo 11 astronauts the biggest reception accorded a foreigner since Former President Dwlght D. Elsenhower visited In 1959 Astronauts Nell A Armstrong. Edwin E. Aldrln and Michael Collins waved to the
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  • 555 5 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Reuter) Singapore urged the world's developing nations today to wake up to the fact that "a new freemasonry" of advanced countries and the big powers is increasingly makirq the decisions affecting all of them. S. Raiaratnam Foreign Affairs Minister of
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  • 42 5 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Kodak Ltd has received a £50.00n (US.SI2n.OOO) order, placed by the Russian import agency. Sojuzhlmexport. for Its "Verillth" pla'e making materials, used in offset printing. and for other graphic arts products, said a spokesman for Kodak vesterdav
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  • 313 5 HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE. FU. Wed. (UPI) A Cuban pilot flew a stolen MIG 17 back to the Communist island Tuesday after U.S. airmen rolled up their sleeves and helped a Communist ground crew get the balky jet fighter fuelled and started.
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  • 46 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (Renter) An F-11l aircraft being us*d for missile tests crashed on landing yesterday at Point Mugo Navaj Air Station. Calif, the Pentagon said today The plane, an F-1118 which van ongina'ly built for the navy. wa« on 'oan to Hughes Aircraft Company.
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  • 49 5 OKLAHOMA CITY, Oka Wed <Reut*r) —An Air National Guard TFIOO jet fighter crashed into a group of homes near the Tinker Air Force Base here today, killing one of the copilots Police cordoned off the area but Is was understood that all the four houses were vacant.
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  • 240 5 SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Wed. (UPI) America's next lunar explorers will carry hammocks and blankets in their landing craft for added sleeping comfort during their stay on the moon, Apollo 12 flight director Gerald D. Griffin said yesterday. Griffin also said the colour television
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  • 64 5 MAP DEL PLATE. Argentina, Wed (Reuterl Soviet Space scientist Leonid Sedov. ciesigner of sputnik 1. the first man-made craft in space, said here that research work on the moon should not Imply a sense of competition between nation taking part Prof se<lO\* was speaking at a press conference
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  • 290 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) Mexico begins talks here today on eating the aTleged damage to its economy from the United States' "Operation Intercept" the anti-drug* crackdown at the U.S. Mexican border. Mexico claims that operation intercept has cut U.S. tourist traffic across the border and caused
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  • 108 5 LAS VEGAS, Nev.. Wed. (TTPP A private security guard shot and killed a suspected robber In a liquor store last night as bands of youths roamed the mostly Negro west side in the third night of violence. Police said the unidentified man was shot by the
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  • 152 5 PHILADELPHIA, Wed (Beater) Concert audiences love her But the neighbours of famed U.S. Pianist Susan Starr claim she is keeping them awake with let* nigrht practice sessions. Now two of them are seeking an injunction to prevent Miss Starr, who has appeared with leading orchestras
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  • 70 5 LOS ANGELES Wed. (Renter) Log Angeles county today banned topless waitresses and nude men and wnrn«i performers in restaurants. The han does not affect theatre* and net interrupt thf performances of "hair." the Hippie musical featuring nude scene Los Angeles county has been cue of the most
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  • 59 5 MEXICO CITY. Wed. fßeo. ter) Philippine Foreifa Minister Carlos P. Romulo arrived her* bv ai r today for a four-day official visit dun&g which he will agreements on cultural e-xchanres with Mexico and the abolition ol visa requirement# for tourist*. Gen Romulo arrived from !Cew York where he led
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  • 564 6 TUNKU Abdul Rahman, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, flipped backward in a double somersault in the centre ring of the U.N. circus and became a rank anti-Chinese. The fact that he did not mention the word "Chinese is unimportant because his implication was so blatantly evident that even
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  • 291 6 THE speech by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Rajaratnam at the U.N. General Assembly is extraordinarily significant to underdeveloped nations in general. The momentum of world events and the big power politics have brought these nations to the hard reality of survival and development. These
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  • 776 6  -  (Br Don Whitington, Gemini News Service) CANBERRA: Australia faces its most important general election for 25 years on Saturday October 25. It could decide Australia's attitude to South-east Asia and what has become known in recent years as the American alliance, apart
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  • Letters...
    • 573 6  -  MAMAT BIN SAMAT. (Secretary General.) Singapore Malay Teachers Union Singapore. Sdr. Ghasali Ismail, Political Secretary to the Minister of Education, had stated recently that. a sharp decline of the number of Malay parents sending their children to Malay schools was because of lack of initiatives and
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    • 65 6  -  CHUAN for to-notrollcr of Customs Ex-is*. Sinrmpore I refer to the letter "Wipe Out Cinema Touts" in the Eastern Sun dated 3.10.69 and to thank Taxpayer for the civic interest he has shown. With regard to his offer. I should be grateful if Taxpayer could write to P
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    • 89 6  -  CHRIS. J. TAY THE Americans and th Russians ha\> spent an extraordinary and fantastic amount of money on trying to land a man on the moon. I do not know how much the Russians have spent, but the Americans expended o*er US$24 billion getting to the
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  • 732 6  -  By JOSEPH ALSOP HONG KONG The China watchers here instinctively disbelieve in a Sino-Soviet war, just as the Eastern European specialists could not really believe in the invasion of Czechoslovakia until after that grim event. Yet exactly the same question has to be asked now
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  • 446 6 The Lighter Side WASH INGTON, (UPI) It is well known that the only way to avoid gaining weight is to balance your intake of calories with the calories you burn through exercise and other activity. The best place to achieve this balance is. of course,
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 410 7  -  By Our Market Reporter THERE was a new liveliness in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday as industrials rallied on fresh speculative support after the past two days' easier tendency. Trading was active. Fresh speculative buying steadied the market soon after the openine
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    • 1075 7 OUSINFSS done in and reported to the trading rooms U of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS Acma $lB7 (1 >; Boustead SI <»8 (2>; Borneo Bhd. $1.78 il) $1.79
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    • 61 7 NEW YORK Wed. <UPI) Rubber future? closed unchanged and untraded vesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange Nov. 28.50 A 28.50 Jan. 2"OOB 27.50 27.00 March 27.008 27.25 27.00 May 26.85 26.85 July 26.60 26.60 Sept 26 "0 26.60 Sept 26 35 26 35 Nov 26 35 26.35
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    • 179 7 LONDON. Wed. Th« first of the forty eight-ton Wellington class hovercraft Bntain's newest air cushion vehicle was "rolled out" yesterday at the Southampton, Southern England plant of the British Hovercraft Corporation. It is designed to span the gap between the firm T s nineton
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    • 141 7 SYDNEY Wed. »UPI> Wednesday's cloying Ejdney Stock Exchange «selected shares): MINING Acmex 2.10 Barrier 2.20 Bh 4.00 C Oo!d 8.80 CRA 17.40 Em P*r 185 GT Boulder 10.50 OT Nthn .35 Gt West .79 Hamir.er«]ey 12 ?o Kath Inv 0 r,O Lake 2.20 Loloma 2 52 MKU
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    • 92 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Stocks finished on the weak side yesterday in moderately active trading. Shortly before the clo?e the UPI market wide indicator was off 0.10 per cent On 1.559 issues crossing the tape There were 671 declines, and 614 advances The Dow Jones average
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    • 469 7 OONN, Wed. (UPI) The Soviet Union and West Germany are pushing a US$300 million deal which could mark the beginning of wider Russo-German future cooperation, according to authoritative sources. The deal under negotiation involves the supply of Russian gas in exchange for West German
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    • 154 7 LUXEMBOURG. Wed (Reuter) European Common Market ministers last night worked out a compromise deal to protect West German farmers from cheap imports following the government decision to float the mark. Delegation sources said the arrangement, a synthesis of different proposals. was largely the
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    • 212 7 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Currency markets stayed Jittery yesterday still awaiting an early official decision on an expected formal upvaluation of the West German mark. The "floating" mark stayed high and hopes of its early revaluation upwards pulled both the Swiss franc and the Dutch guilder higher
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    • 93 7 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) The market lost further ground yesterday Nickel mining shares met profittaking on recent gains with Posledon around 19/- off. Most other equity sectors were dull on general lack of buying Interest. Towards the close the FT index was 3.8 down at 374.7.
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    • 305 7 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) The Export-Import Bank of Japan yesterday extended Japan's first government yen credits to Colombia with the World Bank's co-operation to help develop the electric power industry in that South American country. The bank signed a pair of agreements in Tokyo to extend the credits
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    • 300 7 October f rst grade rubber buyert closed at 5 p m., in S*ngapore and Kuala Lumpu r yesterday a t 73! cents per lb., down one and a half cents from th« prev ious close. Th e tone of the market was quiet. Thp market eased
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    • 147 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold t>rice s were mixed in moderated active trading venterday on markets here ar.d abroad In London. go'.d rose 2-i U S cents to 40.775 U.S. dollars the troy ounce at the morning fixing and remained »t that level for
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    • 15 7 The tin pnce for yesterday was $632 12i oer Picul, up i $0.625.
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    • 250 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority has announced the following berthing arrangements for ships in port today, Thursday. Oct. 9. DEPARTURES God owns Vessels 67 Servaaskerk 15'16 Effie Maersk 18 Leda Maersk N.W. 1 Hua Heng N.W 2 Scudai 25 26 Hide Maru 33 34 Bendearg 40/41 Kyusei
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    • 578 7 i ix o iron* cfcMr* Mid officially iu fed fld Ot at U Man bm i xtaas m at BBUova. INDUSTRIAL* Ann* »*n Co ►•♦*eH 4 L88 1 44 Borneo Blid 1 L 79 Ml Bousi«-*fJ 1 »7 C. Pljnood C. «Uaar Irl 1.40 Chemical Co
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    • 88 7 London Rubber Mart C loses Uncertain LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed uncertain yesterday with spot 26§. 27 nom. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Nov. 26-3/4 27 Dec 26-1/4 26-3'B Jan 25-5/8 25-7-8 Jan Mar 25-1/2 25-5/8 Apr/June 25-3/8 25-9/16 July/Sept 25-3/16 25-3/8 Oct Dec 25-1/16 25-1/4 Jan Mar 25 25-1/8 Apr June
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    • 76 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money Quotations yesterday: Hong Kong dollars 6.0875 per U£ dollar. Hong Kong dollar* 6.***** per Ui3 dollar T.T. Hong Kong dollars 14.51 per pound sterling. Hong Kong dollars 307.25 per tael of gold 84.5 per eent fineness. Hong Kong dollars 162.7 per 10.000 Japanese
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    • 84 7 THE noon prleaa at tfce pnre CHIDH* Prodore ttcbai s« >e»ter«l*T ««rc^— HCWR Heller orrinot on < F OB) Bulk 60 00 Cocnnot Oil (F.O.B) Orgn ftkJkO Mttfrt Copra Munink White PcppM Il-fiO (FO.B > 13? .V) Ssrjwaw White Proper ffOB) IVIJ6 Mr»*ik BlMl »'roon 1M1H) Ml% VL.W 17X
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI)— Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 industrials 806 23 20 rails 195.72 15 utilities 111.20 65 stocks 273.09 40 bonds 70.61 Commodity futures index 141.41 off 0.19.
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    • 445 7 ARRIVALS 5-00 a.m. MSA 029 K Lumpur I Mlft a m I 1 A II iSift I tilted States. Papeete. Pact He y Or, a m MSAI 19 K Lumpur. *36 am. CARLDA UA»«i Jakarta 10.15 a.m. MSA 121 K Lumpur. 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 Penang, Ipoh, K-
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      330 8 PHOTOGRAPHY is the process of recording forms of objects on sensitive surfaces by the action of light. Thomas Wedgwood of England was the first man to suggest the u«e of a substance sensitive to light for recording images. Thomas Wedgwood rendered forms on paper and leather but he could
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    • 298 8 Advantages And Disadvantages Of Having Many Brothers Sisters I HAVE a friend. Her name is Lucy. Bhe Is an intelligent girl though she comes from a poor family. She has six sisters and five brothers. One day I visited her. She told me that she was very sad because of
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    • 463 8 PEOPLE in Singapore own an Identity Card each except those under twelve years old I took my Identity Gird recently in my school. To get an l-Card. we need two photographs, one of which is to be pasted on the left of the
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    • 361 8 In ancient times, man learnt to tame animals for hunting. gu:dlng riding and carrying loads These were the useful service* rendered by animals to man. Among them, dog* are very Interesting. Dogs of various breeds are kept, for hunting, guiding, companionship and others. Husky
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    • 275 8 >v V V RULES REGULATIONS L Tills If a bi-mocthly contest appearuif weekly Thursday en this pag« 2. Every participant is required to fill in the "balloon" spaced) what be or she think® is being said by the characters in this cartoon. 3. Every entry should be clearly and neatly
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    • 189 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this pare every Thursday One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 165 8 AMY By J«ck Tippet sar 'l'm checking to see if a peanut butter sandwich is fattening." DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Aldan McWiams 6 YOUR* OFFER OF GAME TICKETS IS VERY GENEROUS, NOBLE, BUT WE HAVE OTHER PLANS FOR THIS EVENING/ BE A SPORT, MR. LAKE I HAVEN'T SEEN
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  • 388 9  -  By Gloria-mae WELL. I finally got over my blues that tiff with my man' and both of us are back to sharing the joys of this world, with an addition. You see, we've decided to go on boutique beat together. Try it with HIM. it is definitely more
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  • 542 9  -  Ann Landers T~)EAR ANN: Change the name of the city. I would die if anyone knew about this. Our daughter, Linda, aged 21' and a college senior, plans to be married when she graduates next June Linda and Tom, her fiance, were
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  • 148 9 ROXY ROCKWOO t>. former Los Angele* motorcycle officer ha* been signed by producer Albert 8 Luddy as technical adviaer for motorcycle racing scenes in "Little Faus* and Big Hal*y." The motion picture, which *tars Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard, currently is before the cameras
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  • 110 9 piLISUR. Switzerland 1 (UPI) French movie star Brigitte Bardot and her third husband, German playboy Ounther Sachs, were divorced here a month ago, it was confirmed yesterday. Judge Georg Janett, who had granted the divorce on September 2, said he can only confirm the fact and is
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    • 312 9 LIDO Phone ***** OPENS TODAY! 11 ».a.. 1.44. 4.M. A *l5 p.m. Bernard DeVries. Rotemarte Dexter "THE SEX OF ANGELS" Technicolor. Techniaeop# iUA> CAPITOL Phonr ***** OPENS TODAY! No Free Ll«t! Due to Film's Length 4 Shows Not* Tira»«: 11. S-M. «.15 A #l3 NO INCREASE IN PRICES' William Holden
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 145 10  -  By Big Ben PENANG, Wed. Okay Okay with Asuwadi up did a smart 3f gallop in 39 on a soft track here after a heavy shower last night. Seneran Bintang (Nawari) and Picture House 111 (Podmore) were associated in an impressive workout. They clocked 39
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    • 955 10 CL S Div. 1—6 Furs. 123 Eeilaiahang 5y 9.00 S.M. Chua 123 Hipp* Melody 11 4y 8.13 Chens' Stable Rodger® OOO Blue Sky 3y 8.05 Auric Stable R. B-euk 313 Jrrantut 4v 8.03 Sultan of Pahang Lee 356 General Troof 11 6y 6 03 Agency Kong
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    • 361 10 NAOPUR. India. Wed. (Reuter) Hedley Howarth spun New Zealand to a 167run victory over India in the second cricket Test here today to level the three-match series. Howarth s second Innings return of five wickets for 34. backed up by off-splnner Vic Pollard's three for
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    • 107 10 NAGPUR. India, Wed. (Router) —Three members of the Indian cricket team which lost the second Test against New Zealand here today have been dropped from the side for the deciding Third Test beginning at Hyderabad on Oct. 15 Batsmen Chetan Chauhan and Ashok Mankad
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    • 170 10 Piccadilly Golf LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Gary Player. 2-1 favourite to score his third successive victory In the £18.500 Piccadilly World match play golf competition which begins at the Wentworth Club near here tomorrow, is still having trouble finding his form. After completing a practice round on
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    • 76 10 LIVERPOOL. England. Wed. (Reuter)— Richard Bergmann. 48-year-old former world table tennis champion, is in a hospital here with a tumour on the brain. Bergmann. who was taken ill playing an exhibition match, is due to have an operation next week. The former Austrian star, who
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    • 133 10 SINGAPORE'S top bowler, Mr. S. Y. Loh, a skipping executive, flew to Australia late Tuesday night to take part in the Australian Ten-Pin Bowling Congress Championships. He is one of two local bowlers to be represented there. The other is professional bowler from Jackie's
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    • 473 10 THE visiting Ceylon Rugby Union team suffered Hieir first defeat here, when they went down by 23 points to nil to the Singapore Joint Services, the Malaya Cup champions, at the Padang yesterday. This is their second defeat at the hands of the Services, who beat them
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    • 169 10 LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Wed. (Reuteri Top-ranked Rod Laver of Australia scored an easy 6-3. 6-0 win over American Jim McManus in the first round of the US$5O,OOO Howard Hughes Open tennis tournament here. Laver's next opponent is Andres Glmeno of Spain who scored a hard
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    • 78 10 MIAMI BEACH. Florida. Wed. (UPI) Ai Jone g protected hi* standing as the world's seventhranked heavyweight contender yesterday by scoring a unanimous 10-rOund decision over Charlie Polite of Boston. Jones a 6-6. 230-pounde r fro*" Goulds. Florida. wo n seven of the ten r ound s at Miami
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    • 31 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played last night we e: Floodlight Competition— First Round Leigh 25 Wakefield Trinity 8 Club Match Leeds 13 St. Helens 7.
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    • 74 10 FARNBOROUGH. England. Wed. (Reuter) A 27-year-old blonde has become the first woman In Britain to be appointed instructor by a ScM club. Peta Morgan, a former secretary with an impressive golfing record in women's events, is giving lessons at High Elms, a new course near
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    • 226 10 MELBOURNE. Australia. Wed.—The first Australian baseball team to compete overseas will meet the Philippines. Japan and the United States in a series in Manila between Nov 29 and Dec. 7. Before then, on Nov 14, the Asian Baseball Federation meeting in Taiwan will give their
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    • 136 10 LOS ANGELES, Wed <UPI) Zelmo Beaty, the Atlanta Hawks veteran centre, signed a Jour-year contract with the Los Angeles Stars yesterday and became the third National Basketball Association player in recent months to Jump to the American basketball association. Beaty, who is a 6
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    • 102 11 THE city administration of the Bavarian state capital has already done quite a lot in the interests of the popular sport of swimming. There are four public indoor swimming pools and seven public open air pools. In 1968. 2,200.000 visitors were registered at the seven
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    • 930 11  -  By Geoffrey Murray Tokyo, Wed. (Reuter) TWO hulking mountains of flesh crouch menacingly inches apart, glaring at eaeh other in eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation. Bare feet crash into the sand clay floor, clenched fists rest hard against parallel white lines drawn on the floor. Then,
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    • 246 11 NEW YORK Wed <UPI> The New York Meu. listed as 8-5 underdogs to the Baltimore Orioles for the world series beginning on Saturday, took a day of rest yesterday after sweeping the Atlanta Brave* in three games for the National League Pennant Th* Mets
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    • 107 11 LONDON. Wed. The British Davis Cup tennis team of Gerald Battrick. Mark Cox. Peter Curtis and Graham Stllwell. with Hedley Baxter as non-playing captain. have been invited to form Britain* team for the first round of the King's Cup against Switzerland at Bracknell Sports
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    • 147 11 LONDON*. Wed Twenty years ago Roy Sproson signed professional paper* at Port Vale Today as tJie side from the English Midlands heads the Fourth Division of the English Football League w«th an unbeaten record this season. Sproson is still providing great service for the club.
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    • 75 11 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) rive Asian countries will participate in the Sixth Asian Karate championship* and the International Invitational Karate tournament to be held here from Oct. 23 to 26. Captain Meliton C. Oeronimo President of the Karate Brotherhood of the Philippines. announced here that three individual
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    • 34 11 CAGLIARI. Sardinia, Wed fßeuter)—Pakistan beat Italy 6-0 in an International men's hockey match here last night The half-time score wag 1-0. The victory was the fourh (A Pakistan'® lour-mat eh Italian tour.
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    • 319 11 PRAGUE, Wed. <Rcuter) Ladislav Adamec sent i Czechoslovakia four points clear at the head of the World Soccer Cup second qualifying group when they I fired three goals against the Republic of Ireland here i last night. They were the only goals of the game
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    • 145 11 World Cup SEOUL Wed <UPI> The World Cup 15 a soccer elimination series will open here on Friday with Japan and Australia meeting In the opening game on the lawn cround of Seoul Municipal Stadium The third competitor 1* South Korea. The Japanese team of Ave
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    • 110 11 LONDON. Wed. Jack Bodell will meet Carl Glzzl In a 15-round contest for the vacant British and Empire heavyweight championships on Oct. 13. Bodell. the Midland area heavyweight champion. Is Britain's leading contender for the titles relinquished by Henry Cooper. Bodell has a consistent record and has
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    • 49 11 HOUSTON, Texas, Wed. fUPI) G«or*e Forerr ars, U.S. Olympic heavyweight champion last year, scored" his feventh straight oro knockout ast night by beating Vernon Clav of New Orleans in 35 seconds of the second round Foreman, 216. knocked Out Clay. 229. with a left-right combination.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1147 11 YOU I jm *->*♦* TV and Radio F1 TODAY t3 (CHANNEL SI P.M. 300 Opening Anncts. in •J 1 Languages and Morning Star; 3.20 Another Song Another Melody 'Tamil» tßepeati; 3>3 Its Happening in Singapore (Chinese» <Repeat>; 4.10 Housewives Matir.ee (Part 2 of a Cantonese film. 'The Faithful Levers <
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  • 179 12 FROM sauce-makinf, to canning, to computerisation to cope with the demands of a growing business. This is the story of the local Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd., which has just placed an order for an ICL computer, and it is the first manufacturing company here to
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  • 73 12 The British Secretary of State for Education. Mr. Edward Short, arrived here yesterday for a ten-day visit. In Singapore. Mr. Short will meet the Education Minister, Mr. Ong Pang Boon the British High Commissioner and the Commander-in-Chief. Far East Command. He will also be
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  • 441 12 A PLAN aimed at an enduring and dependable solution to the acute unemployment problems affecting developing countries like Singapore and Malaysia will be launched by the International Labour Organisation early next year. The scheme, named the World Employment Programme. was endorsed and adopted
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  • 195 12 THE Sincnpore Medical Association and the British Medical Association have jointly published a booklet to educate local n.cii.cr; he care of their babies. Titled "You And Your Baby the booklet has been published in the three most commonly used languages in Singapore Malay, Chinese, and
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  • 754 12 THE Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, last night called on local architects to change with the times and reorientate themselves if they are to contribute fully towards the building of Singapore and the development of architectural education. The
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  • 94 12 One erf the three pipe lines, carrying sewerage. a r.d running along Lorong Tongkol. exploded early yesterday morning. The squatter# living m the area, off 8 ms Tampmes Road, said that they heard two explosions at about 4 40 am in the morning. Investigations carried out. revealed
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  • 84 12 Police Officers from the Commercial Branch of the CID raided a house at Lorong Engku Aman in Geylang on Monday afternoon and seized an electrical machine for s«»a> ing plastic cans and other manufacturing utensils The Police searched the house and found several sa<"ks of empty Gripe
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  • 441 12 THE Vice-President and Comptroller of the Executive Board of Korea Trade Promotion Corporation, Mr. Har Sanghoon, yesterday described the setting up of trade centres by Singapore in major cities around the world as a "step towards the right direction." Mr. Har, who
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  • 147 12 THE 55.5 million refitting job on the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd'i, ship, "Karanja", one of the biggest contracts secured by Singapore's ship-repairers by Keppel Shipyard is on schedule. The general manager of 81. Mr. D. E. Turnbull. announced this earlier this week
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  • 163 12 A 17-year-old domestic servant has reported to the Police that she was twice raped by a man after he had. on both occasions. Injected something into her with a hypodermic synnee in a secluded hut in Jurong. The girl said the man first committed the offence
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  • 230 12 SINGAPORE 'S Minister for Law and National Deve« lopment, Mr. E. W, Barker, will lead a delegation from the Republic to a Colombo Plan meeting beginning in Canada next week. The conference will be the 20th Meeting of the Colombo Plan
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 90 12 Time tit Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 10 03 am (8.0 ft.). 9.46 p.m. <8 5 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 10.15 am. (96 ft 10.03 p.m. (9.9 ft.) Low Tide (Todoy Singapore Town 3.39 am. (2.1 ft). 347 pm. (3.2 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 321 a.m. (2.8 ft.), 3.35 pm (3.9
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